Impeachment

UPDATE: Will be 15 mins later.

I’ll be on the Green Show with Angie Coiro. Listen in live or find the podcast afterwards:
http://www.green960.com/pages/tgs.html

Call in live: 866-960-5753.

We’re going to talk about whether impeachment is possible. Guess what I’m going to say?

A dozen of us have begun a sit-in at the House Judiciary Committee office. Come join us at Rayburn 2138. Leslie Angeline and Ellen Taylor of Code Pink are the leaders here. Laurel Jensen is here, and Michael Heaney, Thalia Doukas, Darryl Love, Ed Dickau, Michael Beer, Jes Richardson, Mike Marceau, Dan… People are joining us every few minutes. We’re sitting around in the main room of the office. We have two video cameras going, and we’re discussing…

10:40 Actually, a staffer read more

One-hour PressTV discussion of indictment and impeachment:

http://www.presstv.com/pop/wmp.aspx?id=47392

US Senate candidate from Maine Laurie Dobson will be my guest for an hour and we’ll be taking your calls. Dobson is working to indict Bush and Cheney in Kennebunkport, Maine. She’s made restoration of the Constitution central to her senate campaign. Join us Wednesday March 12th 8-9 p.m. ET at http://thepeoplespeakradio.net

I took part in an hour-long debate on impeachment and indictment today, taped by http://www.presstv.com Go there at 5 p.m. ET this Wednesday to watch it. Or watch the archived clip at any time thereafter at the “American Dream” page. Press TV is also on satelite.

VIDEO: Rally Preceding Vote in Vermont to Indict Bush and Cheney

Watch this video: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/31652

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AUDIO: Liz Holtzman, David Swanson, Marjorie Cohn, and Callers on Impeachment

“All About Impeachment” — Two hours on The Mark Weaver Show on Florida Progressive internet Radio

Special guests are:

Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman of the House Judiciary committee that impeached Nixon, talking about how the charges and politics are different this time around

Marjorie read more

Speakers on the Brattleboro Initiative to indict President Bush and Vice President Cheney: Kurt Daims, David Swanson, Laurie Dobson, John Nirenberg, Dan DeWalt.

By David Swanson

Brattleboro, Vt., voted today in support of a measure calling on the town’s police force to arrest and indict Bush and Cheney. The vote was 2012-1795.

Marlboro, Vt., passed a similar measure at its town meeting today at which the vote to indict Bush and Cheney was 43-25-3. That’s 43 in favor and 3 abstaining. Thus Marlboro beat Brattleboro to it by a few hours. In Brattleboro, the indictment question was on the primary ballots for both parties.

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By David Swanson

New Hampshire State Representative Betty Hall is the chief sponsor of a resolution to be voted on this week in the state legislature, a resolution to petition Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. Hall asked people to Email her their thoughts, and she is receiving more than one Email per minute, almost all of them from New Hampshire, but some from other states and countries, and every single one of them supportive of impeachment. Here’s a sampling:

Hi Betty,
I met you read more

By David Swanson

Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney now has more cosponsors signed onto it than any resolution to impeach President Richard Nixon ever had. But separate resolutions to impeach Nixon, some with a handful of cosponsors, many with no cosponsors at all, were filed by the dozens. Today, Kucinich’s resolution stands alone.

“Back in 1973,” Barbara Ellis wrote in a recent paper that has inspired a new strategy among advocates read more

10. If we just wait one more year, only a couple of more hundred thousand Iraqis and some hundreds of US troops will die – nothing to get excited about.

9. In the next year we’ll probably only launch at most one more foreign war beyond the ones we’re running now.

8. Our actions might not provoke an attack in this country, and we can worry about that after it happens.

7. Even starting in 2009 we’ll still have several years left in which we can try to reverse global warming read more